Numerical simulation of metallic TPS panel bowing

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Kontinos, Dean A ^a   Palmer, Grant ^b  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMAL LOAD; THERMOELASTICITY;

FLIGHT-TEST VEHICLES; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; LATERAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMO-ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS; THERMOELASTIC RESPONSE;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85088357243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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